Consistent Supervised-Unsupervised Alignment for Generalized Category Discovery

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Autores principales: Han, Jizhou, Wang, Shaokun, He, Yuhang, Ding, Chenhao, Wang, Qiang, Gao, Xinyuan, Dong, SongLin, Gong, Yihong
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Publicado: 2025
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author Han, Jizhou
Wang, Shaokun
He, Yuhang
Ding, Chenhao
Wang, Qiang
Gao, Xinyuan
Dong, SongLin
Gong, Yihong
author_facet Han, Jizhou
Wang, Shaokun
He, Yuhang
Ding, Chenhao
Wang, Qiang
Gao, Xinyuan
Dong, SongLin
Gong, Yihong
contents Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) focuses on classifying known categories while simultaneously discovering novel categories from unlabeled data. However, previous GCD methods face challenges due to inconsistent optimization objectives and category confusion. This leads to feature overlap and ultimately hinders performance on novel categories. To address these issues, we propose the Neural Collapse-inspired Generalized Category Discovery (NC-GCD) framework. By pre-assigning and fixing Equiangular Tight Frame (ETF) prototypes, our method ensures an optimal geometric structure and a consistent optimization objective for both known and novel categories. We introduce a Consistent ETF Alignment Loss that unifies supervised and unsupervised ETF alignment and enhances category separability. Additionally, a Semantic Consistency Matcher (SCM) is designed to maintain stable and consistent label assignments across clustering iterations. Our method achieves strong performance on multiple GCD benchmarks, significantly enhancing novel category accuracy and demonstrating its effectiveness.
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spellingShingle Consistent Supervised-Unsupervised Alignment for Generalized Category Discovery
Han, Jizhou
Wang, Shaokun
He, Yuhang
Ding, Chenhao
Wang, Qiang
Gao, Xinyuan
Dong, SongLin
Gong, Yihong
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) focuses on classifying known categories while simultaneously discovering novel categories from unlabeled data. However, previous GCD methods face challenges due to inconsistent optimization objectives and category confusion. This leads to feature overlap and ultimately hinders performance on novel categories. To address these issues, we propose the Neural Collapse-inspired Generalized Category Discovery (NC-GCD) framework. By pre-assigning and fixing Equiangular Tight Frame (ETF) prototypes, our method ensures an optimal geometric structure and a consistent optimization objective for both known and novel categories. We introduce a Consistent ETF Alignment Loss that unifies supervised and unsupervised ETF alignment and enhances category separability. Additionally, a Semantic Consistency Matcher (SCM) is designed to maintain stable and consistent label assignments across clustering iterations. Our method achieves strong performance on multiple GCD benchmarks, significantly enhancing novel category accuracy and demonstrating its effectiveness.
title Consistent Supervised-Unsupervised Alignment for Generalized Category Discovery
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04725